GOO DEMOS

also appears on:

• Goo deluxe reissue 2CD/4LP

Line-up (Goo outtake):
Thurston - bass
Kim - guitar
Lee - guitar/vocals
Steve - drums

+ Jad Fair - spoken word
J Mascis - vox
Nick Sansano - keyboards

Lyrics   status: confirmed

Thom these days I feel so displaced
Nothing feels like anything
There's no room left in this place
I've left my whole life standing

Now I feel so right
And I can't stop dreaming
Now I feel okay
With these thoughts all streaming

Now I feel like an angel
Grown my own set of wings
All the boys are one room dipped in time
And girl you're off in the wind

Now I feel so right
And I can't stop dreaming
Now I am the light
That's what I'm feeling

Now I feel like an angel
With dark eyes shining
Now the world has come undone
No bells are chiming

I'm trying to see this through
To see from me to you
But you can't see me at all
No, you can't see...me
I can't stop this now
No, no that's not what I want
And I can't be the one
To calm you down

Thom these days I feel so displaced
Everything here is just television
And I'm left off without a trace
Of the strength of our vision
This dim-lit reason
Twilight rhythm
This infinite season
The big decisions...

NOTES:

• The cleverly titled "Lee #2" was originally recorded during the Goo demo sessions in November 1989, and released on the many bootlegs sourced from those tapes. At this time, the song featured just drums and Lee's multi-layered acoustic and electric guitars. SY recorded the track during the proper Goo LP sessions, but did not include it on the album, though they did play it (w/ vocals by Lee) at a handful of shows on the November '90 Goo tour.
• Lee comments on the original demo: "At this time, before I'd written the words, I always thought it had a sorta Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys vibe. It just has these languid chords, going back and forth, like, 'Let's Go Away For a While'. That's what I was imagining."
• Possibly the most anticipated track on the 2005 'deluxe reissue' of Goo was the vocal version of 'Lee #2'. And, in fact, it exists, and in fact, it is awesome!
• Aaron Mullan, echocanyon soundman extraordinaire, discusses the excavation of the unreleased Goo sessions version: The song Lee #2, which had been included as an instrumental in the demos, also had been recorded during the album sessions and had been mixed along with the rest of the album, but had never been released. Two choice mixes existed, an ‘electric’ mix and an ‘acoustic’ mix. Listening to both of those mixes, neither seemed satisfying. Neither one really found the identity of the song. So we requested the multitracks from the Universal vault. When they arrived I understood the confusion better. Almost all 48 tracks available had been utilized. Not only was there a full electric band, and a full acoustic version overdubbed on that, but there were multiple spoken word tracks by Lee and Jad Fair, backing vocals by J Mascis, and multiple takes of each guitar.

  After a couple of days of Lee, Steve, and me sorting through tracks during the day and Lee continuing work through the night, we got started mixing. There were so many possible mixes in those 48 tracks of stuff that we ended up doing one version using only bits not featured in the new final mix: Jad’s spoken word and a Thurston bass part. This mix ended up on the website on Mixtape #3 to illuminate some of the possibilities that didn’t get used. Mix choices were sent to Kim and Thurston, and eventually everyone picked the version that is on the record.

• On the vocal outtake, Kim plays guitar (not present on the 11/89 demo). Thurston also plays bass on the song but as illustrated above, his track was removed (see below).

ALTERNATE VERSIONS:

• "Lee #2" on Goo demos - 3:34

  Remixed on Goo Deluxe

• "Lee #2 (alt mix)" on Mix Tape vol 3 - 3:22

  Features just Thurston's bass and Jad Fair's spoken word. When synchronized with the other version of the song, it does actually sound pretty cool, but these tracks were probably wisely removed (and are listenable only to remark at Thurston's incredibly bizarre bassline for the song, not found on the original 11/89 demo).